No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow—it's not all going to be over with a big… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided… — Svante Arrhenius Copy Share Image
No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama… — David Frawley Copy Share Image
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece,… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism is best understood as a virus. It has no logic. Jews were hated because they were rich and because they were… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Trees have from time immemorial been closely associated with magic. These stout members of the vegetable kingdom may stand for as long… — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through… — Susan Vreeland Copy Share Image
One of the interesting things about the ancient Greeks is that they really didn't have our conception of individual rights. They didn't… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and,… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Throughout the ages advanced souls have yearned for a society in which liberty and justice prevail. Men have sought for it, fought… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter Copy Share Image
It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable. — Frank Wilczek Copy Share Image
The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Women have always been healers. Cultural myths from around the world describe a time when only women knew the secrets of life… — Jeanne Achterberg Copy Share Image
The ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
